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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jannie Groenewald, post: 4449683, member: 74203&quot;][ATTACH=full]382817[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]382818[/ATTACH] Good evening</p><p>Here is something from my collection,&nbsp; from the Battle of Amien that took place on 8-11 August 1918. I believe some things are worth remembering...</p><p>I bought this 1908 British halfpenny in Cape Town years back. Reason I got it is because it had numbers and dates stamped onto it.&nbsp; I was first told that it is almost impossible to get any meaning from &quot;random numbers&quot; on coins as it is not easy to put it into any context.</p><p>After some research I found that they are not that random at all. These are regiment numbers of two Canadian brothers from WW1. 105 was the 105th Overseas Battalion. 712234 belonged&nbsp; to the younger brother&nbsp; Robert Walter Warren ( born 13/03/1897) and the other to his older brother, Wellington Pope Warren (born 22/03/1896). They were from&nbsp; Prince Edward Island and inlisted in 1915 and 1916.</p><p>Wellington died on the 8 of August 1918, the first day of the Battle of Amiens. He is buried in the Toronto cemetery in Demuin, France.</p><p>The younger brother also died in combat&nbsp; on the 24th and was laid to rest in the Hillside Cemetery near Somme, France.</p><p>It still a mystery why their numbers ended up on this coin and how it found its way into a coin scratch patch in Cape Town.</p><p>Groete</p><p>Jannie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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